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A gold rock.

A Gold rock is a protruding rock containing gold ore. A player with a Mining level of 40 or higher can mine gold ore from rocks found in various mines, granting 65 Mining experience for each ore mined.

Locations

Gold rocks can be found in many mines and mining sites throughout RuneScape.

F2P

• Crafting Guild mining site - 7 gold rocks
• Karamja Volcano mine - 4 gold rocks
• North Crandor mining site - 3 gold rocks
• South Crandor mining site - 3 gold rocks
• Al Kharid mining site - 2 gold rocks
• Dwarven mine - 2 gold rocks
• Rimmington mining site - 2 gold rocks

P2P

• Dondakan's mine - 146 gold rocks
• North-west Karamja mining site - 10 gold rocks
• Keldagrim north mine - 8 gold rocks
• Lunar Isle Mine - 7 gold rocks
• Brimhaven mining site - 6 gold rocks
• Nardah mining site - 5 gold rocks
• Evil Chicken's Lair mine - 4 gold rocks
• Grand Tree mine - 4 gold rocks
• TzHaar City mine - 3 gold rocks
• Keldagrim south-west mine - 1 gold rock

Respawn rate

Gold ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 2 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 1 minute. You will notice that once mined the rock will turn a darker grey colour.

When you are mining a gold rock, the chance that you get an emerald, ruby, saphire or diamond are higher than when mining other rocks.